[presbyterian]

And Discord as well. Every young person is on Discord, they're all learning some Markdown

[ummonk]

Teams and Slack as well, though they use an odd variant markdown (where single asterisk indicates bold instead of italics).

[chrismorgan]

What things like Slack and WhatsApp use are not variants of Markdown, but entirely unrelated lightweight markup languages <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language>.

As for Teams, it looks like it’s much closer to Markdown (uses the same idiosyncratic/stupid link syntax), but still significantly incompatible even if they call it that. And my guess (as a non-user) is that it’s just an input method immediately converted to HTML or similar, not retained as text. So in that way it’s not Markdown either.

[doublepg23]

My least favorite Teams markdown idiosyncrasy is using (foobar) for emoji search instead of :foobar:

[ummonk]

Technically speaking, Slack's markup language is mrkdwn.

[chrismorgan]

That’s not technically, that’s marketingly (sure, it was presumably developers that named it, but it’s still marketing). mrkdwn is a horribly misleading name and they should feel guilty. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=chrismorgan+mrkdwn&type=commen...

[bsimpson]

I get bold and italic confused because Google Chat is almost-Markdown except for * being bold and _ being italic (whereas it's double vs singular in classic Markdown).

[cheema33]

Teams does not use Markdown AFAIK. I wish it did.

[ummonk]

See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-markdown-form...

My company is on Teams and I regularly use Markdown in my messages, though I still struggle to remember that I have to use underscores not asterisks for italics.